Show 1 50 1 GENTS CENTS A DAY IS ISi i WAGE OF MINERS IN AFRICA Gold and Diamond Diggers i Get Little White Men rl Paid Much More I. I By ByEd Edward ard M M. Thierry With Smithsonian Universal African Expedition JOHANNESBURG March Capital In n South Africa either Is so lucky In dealIng dealIne deal deal- Ing Ine with labor that It doesn't need brains brains' or el else so brainy that i it d doesn't need luck With the rest of the world stewing In la labor or troubles South Africa ha has hag industrial peace of which which gold gold mining and diamond mining are greatest have been practically untouched b by labor laor or unrest What would you do Mr Employer if it you had and you only had to pay of them an ana average of or I Ia a day and the other SOO only nl had to be I paid 50 SO to 75 cents a day and provided t with with- with food food and lodging costing only y I 1 IS to 15 cents a aday day CAPITAL YOUNG I That's th the labor situation In South Sout Africa Africa- Yet capital I is gloomy Most Mosto o of oC the agitation now going on comes not from labor but from capital corns There has been a a. a government Inquiry the to low grade mine mine- labor question Mine lIne owners pleading that the cost o of gold production In low low grade mind mines yielding a percentage of ot g gold p per ton has gone up up so 80 high are try trying ng to have havethe havethe the colar bar lifted 4 I The color bar is a law prohibiting n na na from holding jobs as as' gang b bosses or foremen in mines or Jobs requiring aI skill III r I The while man in the mines owes wes owes his position to monopoly flits task k Is i to toive ive di direct direct di- di reet the labor of his gang gang of ot natives who are are debarred by law from competIng competing ing with him however capable they ma may maybe and be be and Sometimes are COLOR DECIDES SAL SALARY SALARY RY While While trouble does does does' doesn n not t appear ppe r Imminent Imminent imm- imm nent South African students of the situation situation sit sit- declare that the artificial position cr created by the f fact ct that the color o of oC a aman's amans amans aman's mans man's skin and not decides decide whether h he shall shan be paid 7 O a day day day- even as high as 15 a a day stay or or ay-or or half haIr a dol dot dollar lar a day with meager gel food and lodging is a condition that cannot be permanent Mine operators operators' want to raise the color bar bar- barbut but they dont don't think think much much of the idea of raising th the natives to the white whit wage standard i J Capital it II its support of the of the latter contention con con- points to a i report of of the eco eco- economic economic economic commission that with pay at one only a day one forty out o of two fifty-two gold mines nines would have to shut to-shut shut down an and the remaining eleven would operate a avery at very re reduced profits |